The southern colony was the first area to be settled and because of their inexperience many lives were lost. The first settlers settled in the inland peninsula because they wanted to prevent a surprise attack from the Spanish. What the settlers failed to prevent was sickness, many died from malaria because the area they settled in was the breeding ground for it.

Many of the people that came to the southern colony of Virginia were aristocrats, merchants and gentleman. These people that came felt they were too good for labor that common men did. They only survived by bullying the Powhatan's for food. Most of the first settlers did not survive.

The Virginia Company was the company that was granted the charter to settle the area of Virginia. Their investment was quickly deteriorating and they had to find a way to make more money and to bring more settlers to the area. The company established a "headright" system for grating land to individuals. Those already settled in the colony received 100 acres apiece and new settlers each received 50 acres. Those that help pay the passage of other immigrants to Virginia received an extra 50 acres per pers

Most adult women were hardworking farmwives who cared for large households of children. Between marriage and middle age, most New England wives were pregnant except when breast-feeding. When they were not nursing or minding children, mothers were producing and preparing much of what was consumed and worn by their families. They planed vegetables and pruned fruits trees, salted beef and pork and pressed cider, milked cows and churned butter, kept bees and tended poultry, cooked and baked, washed and ironed, spun, wove, and sewed. Women suffered legal disadvantage as well. English common law and colonial legal codes accord married women no control over property. Wives could not sue or be sued, they could not make contracts, and they surrendered to their husbands any property they possessed before marriage.

Contrary to expectations, New England proved more hospitable to the English then that Chesapeake did. The character of the migration itself gave new England settlers an advantage, for the most arrived in family groups-not as young, single, indentured servants of the sort whose discontents unsettled Virginia society. The heads of New England's first households were typically freemen-farmers, artisans, and merchants. Most were skilled and literate. Since husbands usually migrated with their wives and children, the ratio of men to women within the population was fairly evenly balanced.

The pilgrims that were the first to settle in the New England area came on the Mayflower in 1620. These Pilgrims also set up their own government, and was guided by the Mayflower Compact. Later in 1629, the Puritans came to America and established the town of Salem. John Winthrop was the company's first governor. Once established in the Bay Colony, Winthrop and the other stockholders transformed the charter for the trading company into the framework of government for a colony. The company's governor became the colony's chief executive; the company's other officers, the governor's assistants. The governor, his assistants, and the other freemen together made up the general court of the colony, which passed all laws, levied taxes, established courts, and made war and peace.

Puritan emigrants and their descendants thrived in New England. The first generation of colon

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